Rosana Ricalde: Poemas Penduradas

Rosana Ricalde's first solo show occupies the wonderful, beachfront Laura Alvim cultural centre over the coming weeks, showcasing sixteen of the artist's paintings, sculptures and installations created between 2005-2013. Taking a literal and inspirational lead from literary works and dictionaries, the hacked up pages might look like they sacrifice one artform for another, such as in the earliest piece 'As Palavras e As Coisas' with text from a Michel Foucault tome wrapped around dozens of small cubes, but Ricalde insists on buying two copies of every book so that one is saved from the scissors. 'As Viagens do Marco Polo', however, best displays the ingenious way in which one discipline has directly influenced and become part of another.